Good episode to pass the time but not one of the best. The victim is killed while on the phone with a muckraker played by Don Defore in a departure from his good guy character in Hazel. He is the murderer and set up the phone call to give himself an alibi. This same stunt was used by murderer Daniel J Travanti in an episode of Perry Mason. Arlen Martel gets to do some real acting as twins in this episode. Despite her best efforts, she will always be Spock's bad fiancé or Tiger in Hogan's Heroes. The three bad guy gunmen are idiots. Why don't they just shoot Mannix and be done with it? The helpful woman who hides Mannix in her place is a bit of comic relief that doesn't fit into the tone of the episode but she is an original. Peggy gets in some good phone calls to produce timely information. Give her a phone and an hour and she could find Amelia Earhart. Mannix is not shot, knocked out, or drugged. Since his employer is one of the twins who fires him during the show, he might have only been paid for his initial work. Would have gotten considerable publicity for bringing in the muckraker so that's something.
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